September 1, 2008 (LPAC)--The House Education and Labor Committee, chaired by Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the U.S. Labor Department and the U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles are each investigating possible criminal misconduct by Tyrone Freeman, the head of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) branch in Los Angeles. George Soros stooges, SEIU President, Andy Stern, and SEIU/Democracy Alliance official Anna Burger, gave Freeman control of the California section of the union in a power struggle against California-based opponents of their leadership.
Now, as the investigations, involving accusations of looting of the union's treasury, are proliferating, Freeman has resigned, and Freeman's former chief of staff, Rickman Jackson, has also left his present post as head of an SEIU local in Michigan.
SEIU executive vice president Annelle Grajeda, a top California operative of Stern and Burger, has also stepped down amid separate allegations of other illegal payments.
SEIU President Andy Stern has put his 2-million member organization at the service of British Foreign Office agent George Soros' wrecking operation against the Democratic Party and organized labor. SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger is vice chairman of the Democracy Alliance, the Soros-run billionaires' club at the center of a vast money-conduiting machine interlocking the SEIU, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and the Obama Presidential campaign.
Stern and Burger installed Tyrone Freeman, an SEIU international vice president, as head of the new Los Angeles-based SEIU Local 6434, the United Long-Term Care Workers' Union. This was a statewide reorganization in an attempt to crush a rebellion led by Oakland-based SEIU leader Sal Rosselli against Stern's sweetheart deals with anti-patient, anti-worker health-care operators, and dirty arrangements with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
A series in the Los Angeles Times has reported that Tyrone Freeman's local paid almost $178,000 to a video firm owned by Freeman's wife, $16,000 to Freeman's brother-in-law's basketball team, $219,000 to a company operated by Freeman's close friend, hundreds of thousands (from a union charity) to Freeman's mother-in-law's day-care service, and a total of almost $300,000 to a resort golf tournament, a steakhouse, a Beverly Hills cigar club and a talent agency. Under fire, Freeman refunded the nearly $10,000 spent at the cigar club. Freeman's unopposed 2002 election as an SEIU local president is under investigation, as are complaints of various thug tactics against Feeman's members.
Meanwhile Annelle Grajeda, the SEIU's international executive vice president and an aide to President Andy Stern, has left her posts. At issue are complaints about union payments to her former boyfriend Alejandro Stephens, after he ceased being a Los Angeles SEIU officer. Grajeda is head of the SEIU's California state council, which runs the union's lobbying efforts with Governor Schwarzenegger and the legislature, and which oversees get-out-the-vote drives overlapping with the entire Soros apparatus. Her state council is accused of making $75,000 out of the $89,000 payments wrongfully given to her ex-boyfriend.
- Desperate Counterattacks vs. Internal Opponents -
The Andy Stern-run SEIU leaders are now seeking to place under receivership - for alleged corruption, the northern California local, United Healthcare Workers (UHW) headed by Sal Rosselli, the focal point of resistance to the Soros gang.
Rosselli released a statement August 25:
"Stern's latest attack on UHW is an act of desperation.
"Today we received notice from SEIU International Union President Andrew Stern that he intended to hold a hearing on September 22-23, 2008 for the purpose of determining whether to put UHW into trusteeship....
"This most recent action is simply a cynical attempt to divert attention away from Andy Stern and Anna Burger's links to the corruption reported recently in both the LA Times and the New York Times of leaders such as Tyrone Freeman and Rickman Jackson, and others who Stern and Burger appointed into office.
"UHW is one of a number of SEIU affiliates that have forcibly spoken out against undemocratic practices, forced mergers and cronyism within our union.
"Today's call for trusteeship.... points to the need to hold the top leaders of our International Union, including Andy Stern and Anna Burger, accountable. This act of desperation also establishes the need to have an independent agency investigate the financial practices and cronyism of the officers of the International Union.
"In Unity, Sal Rosselli"
